Raskolnikov38 posted:

where do I get n95s with little prc flags on them

Al-Saqr posted:

christ can we please drop the ww2 comparisons i swear to god the siege of bakhmut is not like stalingrad

supersnowman posted:

Just-in-time military logistics. Is this peak liberalism?

crepeface posted:

it's like when voldermort and the death eaters were kicked out of hogwarts

Endman posted:

*kicks in door to thread*

he’s right it’s actually just like the Siege of Przemysl Fortress in 1914

Cerebral Bore posted:

i think it's varg's racism rpg project

Freezer posted:

I've got a hunch that the Russians would use nukes if losing Crimea ever became a serious possibility.

Slavvy posted:

This war is most similar to the time those Greeks tried to build a wall and the other Greeks built a competing wall to cut them off in a wall building race

Lostconfused posted:

https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1628495599925428224

DancingShade posted:

Ah yes the command and conquer 1 sandbags across the map then a turret strategy.

Frosted Flake posted:

There’s a certain kind of policy person obsessed with the Peloponnesian War, the inevitable war between established and emerging power, maritime versus land based power etc. but none of them mention that America treats allies about the same as the Delian League, or what the ultimate result of the war was. Instead of dying of plague, our Pericles has dementia, which is much funnier.

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The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) is seeking to deliver an interim medium-range land fires capability to the British Army within the next 12 months in an apparent attempt to bridge a looming capability gap, one created by the provision of the in-service 155mm AS90 self-propelled gun to Ukraine, that won’t be fully resolved until the introduction of a new artillery platform under the Mobile Fires Platform (MFP) programme.

Although the AS90 was planned to be retired towards the end of the decade, the need to provide Ukraine with viable artillery systems in its war against Russia saw the provision of a range of military equipment by the UK to Kyiv, including 24 of its remaining 80-90 AS90 platforms, a handful of M270 multiple launch rocket systems, and 14 Challenger 2 main battle tanks, among other items.

According to the UK Defence in Numbers document released by the MoD on 22 February, 64 artillery guns have been given to Ukraine, likely the L118 105mm light gun drawn from the British Army. It is known that vehicles traditionally attached to artillery regiment such as the Pinzgauer have also been donated.

Speaking to the UK defence committee on 21 February, Lt Gen Robert Andrew Magowan, Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff at the MoD, told members that there were efforts to “speed up” the main MFP programme, that was looking at a timeline towards the end of the 2020s.

“Therefore, we are working with partners to deliver an interim capability within 12 months. So, a fully capable, medium indirect fires is the target we are setting ourselves to meet the gap between what we have done with AS90 and what is going to appear towards the end of the decade,” Magowan said.

...

Quite what such an interim capability would consist of was not disclosed, but some existing UK test and trials programmes could provide some indication as to what type of platform and gun system could be utilised.

One solution could see the L118 105mm, manufactured by BAE Systems and in service with the British Army, fitted to an HMT 6×6 utility vehicle produced by UK company Supacat. Showcased at the DVD 2022 event last year, the solution is similar to a US system also being developed, visible at AUSA in 2022 (pictured), which saw a 105mm artillery system fitted to a striped-down AM General HMMVW.

An alternative could see the creation of additional indirect/direct fires capability through Project Wolfram, which is being undertaken by the MoD and industry stakeholders, to explore the potential to mount the Brimstone missile onto a flatbed truck, providing a strike range of about 20km.

Ytlaya posted:

The guy actually doesn't seem to have a significantly different weight between these pictures, even though I think it's going for "he was malnourished." The tattoos make his torso look thinner than it actually is in the second picture.

Ytlaya posted:

The guy actually doesn't seem to have a significantly different weight between these pictures, even though I think it's going for "he was malnourished." The tattoos make his torso look thinner than it actually is in the second picture.

Slavvy posted:

Ukraine really needs some missile tower + watchtower pairings to hold back the Russian medium tank + grenadier mix

Who are the British in this scenario? I ask because, well

https://www.army-technology.com/news/british-army-to-receive-interim-artillery-solution-within-12-months/

Slavvy posted:

Endman posted:

Does this count as a technical?

Lostconfused posted:

https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1628495599925428224

Isentropy posted:

Hey Gradenko2k, you got any recs for a history of the Philippine American War? From the other side. I'd like to learn how the Empire kinda got started and how it came to be

lobster shirt posted:

from what, romania?

OctaMurk posted:

no technicals are when militias in the Global South put weapons on a truck

when armies of the Global North do it, its a highly mobile expeditionary warfare system designed to shoot and scoot

Endman posted:

*kicks in door to thread*

he’s right it’s actually just like the Siege of Przemysl Fortress in 1914

OctaMurk posted:

no technicals are when militias in the Global South put weapons on a truck

when armies of the Global North do it, its a highly mobile expeditionary warfare system designed to shoot and scoot

Интербригады 2022 posted:

Endman posted:

*kicks in door to thread*

he’s right it’s actually just like the Siege of Przemysl Fortress in 1914

Fuligin posted:

no... no!!

Al-Saqr posted:

christ can we please drop the ww2 comparisons i swear to god the siege of bakhmut is not like stalingrad

the only place where i see any similarities wuth that conflict is the nazi symbology on the ukranians and their hero is the literal chinless untermench nazi collaborator.

Freezer posted:

https://twitter.com/arstechnica/status/1628509817965883392

Lostconfused posted:

https://twitter.com/NinaByzantina/status/1628596974256803840

Freezer posted:

https://twitter.com/arstechnica/status/1628509817965883392

Frosted Flake posted:

Because the Queen's Cipher is on there, we don't write on any artillery pieces.

Endman posted:

*kicks in door to thread*

he’s right it’s actually just like the Siege of Przemysl Fortress in 1914

0 rows returned posted:

its a good thing that stalker 2 will never come out because itll probably suck and imagine putting out a game that sucks after the country thats invading you releases a game

CODChimera posted:

how would that benefit Ukraine?